Dec 30
For New Year's this year I'm heading off to Chicago with Tracey and Co. to see Hum play with the Flaming Lips at the Metro. It should be quite an interesting evening, especially considering I've never even been to Chicago before and last year I spent most of the night sleeping, only to awake ten minutes before midnight.

Dec 29
Insert excuses about work, lack of good links, and the fact I'm visiting mostly the same old sites when I actually do surf at all.

Dec 13
Here's some more solo Malkmus songs recorded live from his recent performance at the BBC.

I totally forgot about this mostly due to the fact that it's so bitterly cold out but the Geminids meteor shower is peaking with one more good time to view them being tomorrow morning.

Dec 12
The solo Malkmus release is floating around now and here's a track to listen to called "Discretion Grove"(Down now. Too bad.) which is apparently going to be the first single released next month anyway. Get the rest of the tracks yourself.

"Sound-emitting toy. A monkey-in-box toy that, upon shaking, shouted, 'Let me out of here! Help! Let me out of here!' Addressed in big letters to LITTLE JOHNNIE. Sound toy was equipped with a new battery. Delivery at doorstep, 6 days."

Hah. I can just imagine that item being fun for the postal workers as it passed through their system.

Too funny. A former writer for Letterman supposedly infiltrated a New York internet startup for 16 days, posing as an employee transferred from a satellite office in Chicago.

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Racked with boredom and 'always a hair's breadth away from masturbation,' Rothman finally resorts to inviting his friends to join him in the office, where they pretend to hold meetings in a glassed-in conference room (which actually turns out to be somebody's office).
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